SUSAN LEE-CHUN
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Susan Lee-Chun was born in Korea and raised in Chicago. Her installations and performances discuss issues of identity and place. Susan constructs fabricated spaces by transforming the floors, walls, and ceilings with patterned textiles/fabrics. She then interacts with the space for her performances and photographs. Susan received her BFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1999), MA Ed from the
School of the Art Institute Chicago (2004).
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Camouflage--Susan Lee-Chun
America wants you to conform yet still retain this exoticism, but it's never on your own terms," says artist Susan Lee-Chun, whose work explores identity and cultural visibility through the use of costume, uniform, performance and installation. Using her own sewing machine, Lee-Chun designs and makes garments, then creates an environment using the same fabric. She then performs in that environment, creating a sort of camouflage effect.
For her Camouflage series, she created a cushioned environment with black lace over olive-green sandbags and fatigues and helmet to match. This was documented in a series of six photographs, but with her face always shielded from the camera. And for a recent show at MoCA, she built a small house and sat inside making and stuffing little plaid balls, then rolling them out.
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Images : Clockwise from top left
Flexspace No. 2, Archival Print, 15" x 23", Edition of 5, 2006
Camouflage No.5, Archival Print, 24" x 36", Edition of 3, 2006
Facade-The Figurative Kind: Untitled Still No. 1 C-Print 16" x 20", Edition of 5, 2006
Facade-The Figurative Kind: Untitled Still No. 8 Archival Print 22" x 32", Edition of 5, 2006
Flexspace No. 1, Archival Print, 15" x 23", Edition of 5
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